Tagliaferro Surname Quotes & Sayings

In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones. — Lynda Obst

The sad truth is that, within the public sphere, within the collective consciousness of the general populace, most of the history of Indians in North America has been forgotten, and what we are left with is a series of historical artifacts and, more importantly, a series of entertainments. As a series of artifacts, Native history is somewhat akin to a fossil hunt in which we find a skull in Almo, Idaho, a thigh bone on the Montana plains, a tooth near the site of Powhatan's village in Virginia, and then, assuming that all the parts are from the same animal, we guess at the size and shape of the beast. As a series of entertainments, Native history is an imaginative cobbling together of fears and loathings, romances and reverences, facts and fantasies into a cycle of creative performances, in Technicolor and 3-D, with accompanying soft drinks, candy, and popcorn.
In the end, who really needs the whole of Native history when we can watch the movie? — Thomas King

Hospitals are about healing. — Irwin Redlener

Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon. — Jamais Cascio

I love cleaning. I love mopping the floor. If you need your floor mopped, I'm there. — Saoirse Ronan

That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes
the legal subordination of one sex to the other
is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other. — John Stuart Mill

The sun shined and winked through wind-rustled leaves to paint the roadway with an ever-shifting mosaic of light and shadows. — Stackpole, Michael A.